For those that do not like the Dial Shifter

Machria · Jan 31, 2018

So your wearing your tranny gears and motor, to save the brake pads?

BWL · Jan 31, 2018

Nothing wrong with down shifting to save the brakes. On a long decline it's pretty easy to warp your rotors if you don't.

blackbeautyhemi · Jan 31, 2018

I like mine. Took about 2 days to get use to. Like others have stated, I don’t care for the shift buttons on the steering wheel but then again it’s not built to be raced on a road course and it works just fine for the straight line drag race guys so it’s whatever.

Demon-HeMi · Feb 1, 2018

BWL said:
Nothing wrong with down shifting to save the brakes. On a long decline it's pretty easy to warp your rotors if you don't.

This right here, downshifting to slow down is something that manual transmission owners have done to save brakes since the beginning of time, no damage is caused buy it.

K-Dawg · Feb 1, 2018

Demon-HeMi said:
This right here, downshifting to slow down is something that manual transmission owners have done to save brakes since the beginning of time, no damage is caused buy it.

Indeed. I got 60K miles on the factory brakes on my 2013 Challenger, primarily because I only use the brakes for STOPPING. When slowing down on off-ramps, down-hills, approaching intersections, bends on country roads, etc..I exclusively use the next lower gear. And especially at highway speeds. Nothing heats up rotors like applying brakes when your at 80 MPH and need to slow down for the left-lane-lurker blocking the passing lane. I just pop the cruise control off, grab a gear, and never touch the brake.

My Rebel has this wasted space in the center of the console, where a console shifter should be. I have sunglasses in the little tray below the HVAC controls, but everything else I keep in the truck is in one of the other SIX covered, enclosed storage compartments. My center console open-pit is empty. If someone would make a manual shifter that would pop into that space and connect into the transmission controls, they'd sell a million of them. My Challenger has parallel A/T shifter controls (Stick and paddles). There's no reason there couldn't be a manual stick that's in parallel with the steering wheel gear controls on these RAM trucks.

Machria · Feb 1, 2018

Demon-HeMi said:
This right here, downshifting to slow down is something that manual transmission owners have done to save brakes since the beginning of time, no damage is caused buy it.

No damage is caused, BUT it is putting wear on the clutch, tranny gears.... Do you want to replace brake pads, or a clutch / gears?

I'm not saying don't or you should not do it, I do it all the time on my 6 speed Mini Cooper. I'm just saying don't fool yourself intoi believing your saving anything, your not.

seabrook · Dec 11, 2018

I HATE IT!!! I have turned down my ac or radio twice and hopped out!!! Dials are for accessories not shifters!!!

I REPEAT THE DIAL SUCKS!!!!!

FCA Should b sued over the dial it’s dangerous!!!!

17Delmonico · Dec 11, 2018

I don't mind. Weird getting used to at first, but it is what it is. For a few months, right after I bought the RAM, I had the RAM with a dial shift, a PT Cruiser with a floor shift, a Dakota with a column shift, and a Grand Caravan with an upper console shift. All Chryslers, and all automatics. I would always reach for the wrong stick (or dial), no matter which vehicle I was in....

runamuck · Dec 11, 2018

I have not totally got used to it. had mine 3 months now. I would rather have the floor shifter on the center console like in the Tundra or Ford. they are probably all going to this in that the transmission is actually not shifted by an actual lever anymore. I know the floor shifters are fake and just move a switch anyway but I am slow to accept new stuff.

Brrempel · Dec 11, 2018

I’m OK with it. Whenever I get nostalgic for a “real” shifter I just take my 20 year old Wrangler for a drive.

What does bother me is the orange light. This is the first vehicle I’ve ever driven (35 years of driving) where an orange light isn’t a bad thing. Make it green or blue or white or just about anything other than orange (or red). I twitch every time I see that orange light.

K-Dawg · Dec 11, 2018

As soon as I figger out how to put a proper console shifter in that gaping hole in my console, I'm going to convert that shifter knob to a master volume control so that no matter how loud the UConnect decides to change the volume to, I can cap it at the output.

RBAT · Dec 11, 2018

Brrempel said:
What does bother me is the orange light. This is the first vehicle I’ve ever driven (35 years of driving) where an orange light isn’t a bad thing. Make it green or blue or white or just about anything other than orange (or red). I twitch every time I see that orange light.

I remember my 70 Challenger R/T with a very bright amber light mounted on the lower dash in close proximity to the pistol grip shifter. Four speeds were left and up for reverse and there was apparently some concern about full throttle launches in reverse instead of first. (Yes, we had idiots back then too).

Todd Brown · Dec 12, 2018

Love it , who cares what shifter looks like they both do the same damn thing @ the end of the day ‍

Fatbob Frank · Dec 12, 2018

I don't mind it so much, but my wife's Jeep and my Charger have center
column shifters so I never really get used to it...

Jimmy07 · Dec 12, 2018

seabrook said:
FCA Should b sued over the dial it’s dangerous!!!!

Because it’s dangerous, or because you can’t take the extra second out of your day to glance over and actually pay attention to what you’re grabbing?

GMcD · Dec 15, 2018

Went from a colum shifter on my 2014 silverado to the knob. Took about a day to get used to it and i have no issues with it. It works as intended. I honestly think people are just overthinking things here

Porkbutt · Dec 17, 2018

I like the dial. It took a little getting used to.

hunter99 · Dec 17, 2018

I just got my first Ram with it as my '13 was still the 6-speed. I liked being able to rest my hand on the shifter but I could care less about the dial. I will say I don't understand how anyone can confuse it with the volume knob. It much larger and it notches into each gear. I do like the extra space in the console that was taken up by the large shifter before.

pacofortacos · Dec 17, 2018

I don't mind the shifter knob.
BUT hate the 4WD buttons, a knob like on the older trucks or even the 2500 is so much better for shifting into 4wd on the fly.
The button is A. too hard to find at speed B. Requires to long of a push to decide that me pushing the stupid button really means I want to be in 4 wd. C. requires me to look down to make sure it understood what my pushing on the button really meant and that it is in 4 WD.

Knob is a simple, reach - find knob - one click - bam in 4 WD.

78Staff · Dec 21, 2018

seabrook said:
I HATE IT!!! I have turned down my ac or radio twice and hopped out!!! Dials are for accessories not shifters!!!

I REPEAT THE DIAL SUCKS!!!!!

FCA Should b sued over the dial it’s dangerous!!!!

They were, and now we have Auto Park...

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